Question
How to run npm in laravel app on app platform
- Posted on January 11, 2021
- LaravelDigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by andrewpnlp
Hi, I’ve got a laravel app running OK (in that the PHP returns the correct landing page and it connects to the DB).
However, when I log into the app platform console to run “npm run prod” in the views directory, I get:
npm: command not found
Can anyone help please?
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Hi @andrewpnlp
Node and NPM will be installed only if you have the files
package.jsonandpackage-lock.jsonin your repo.If your app doesn’t have any Node.js dependencies, you can run
npm initand thennpm installto generate empty but validpackage.jsonandpackage-lock.jsonfiles.Ah Ok,I’ll create a top-level package.json and package-lock.json, although they’ll remain basically empty. Thanks - appreciate the quick and helpful response!
Regards, Andy